In Memory of Patrick Plunket by Fred255

Photography • Landscape • posted on Mar 17, 2008

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Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Terence William Span Plunket, 7th Baron Plunket, CVO, (1923-1975), was Equerry to Her Majesty The Queen, and Deputy Master of the Household of the Royal Household 1954-1975. He was born in 1923. His mother Dorothy Lewis was in reality the illegitimate daughter of the actress Fannie Ward and her lover 7th Marquess of Londonderry.[1] She married as her second husband Terence Plunket, 6th Baron Plunket. When both his parents were killed in an air accident he succeeded to the family peerage (created 1827) in 1938. He and is brothers when then raised by Lord and Lady Londonderry. He was educated at Eton, and joined the Irish Guards. Lord Plunket was temporary Equerry to His Majesty The King and then to Her Majesty The Queen, 1948-1954, as a Captain. On 8 September 1957 he was promoted to Major and to Lieutenant-Colonel 8 April 1969. He was Trustee of the Wallace Collection, and of the National Art-Collection Fund. Lord Plunket died in 1975. He is buried in the Royal Family's private burial ground at Frogmore in Windsor Park. Information from wikipedia Thank you for looking, as always any comments or suggestions welcome 8~) **Best Viewed Full Size**